Turbinolia complanata. Ibid. pl. xxxvi. fig. 9.
————— mitrata. Ibid. pl. xxxvi. fig. 10.
Caryophyllia centralis ([Lign. 89 figs. 1, 2]: [Lign. 88, fig. 5]).—Polyparium turbinated, or cylindrical, simple or branched, longitudinally striated, fixed by the base; cells lamellated.[238]
[238] Monocarya (of Lonsdale), Dixon's Fossils, p, 244.
A small recent species (C. cyathus), is very common in the Mediterranean, and frequently seen in collections: it is cyathiform, and the base by which it is attached to other bodies, is broad and spreading; the newer tertiary deposits of Sicily contain this species in abundance.
A Caryophyllia, bearing a general resemblance to this species, is common in the chalk, and occurs in beautiful preservation (Wond. Lign. 58, fig. 3).[239]
C. centralis, Pict. Atlas, pl. xxxvi. figs. 15, 16.
C. annularis, ibid. pl. xxxvii. fig. 5.
Branched Caryophylliæ are found in the Coralline Oolite and Dudley Limestones (Sil. Syst. pl. xvi.). A large proportion of the Coral-rag of the Middle Oolite is composed of a branched species (C. annularis) of this genus; [Lign. 88, fig. 5], represents a specimen from near Faringdon.